Sen. Ted Cruz is a boat anchor for the GOP

Josh Marshall February 16, 2013, 5:20 PM

To Democrats and those with a sense of history, Sen. Ted Cruz is a Latter-Day Joe McCarthy; to Senate traditionalists, he?s a jerk; to Tea Partiers and base Republicans, he?s a breath of fresh air.

But each verdict is consistent with and utterly secondary to a greater fact: Cruz is exactly the guy to keep the GOP tied to its losing 2012 ways basically forever. In political terms, he?s a Democrat?s dream Republican.

Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall is editor and publisher of TalkingPointsMemo.com.

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